Frontend Engineer - Graphics & Rendering
At Evolution, our frontend engineers build graphics-rich real-time casino games for hundreds of thousands of concurrent players on the web - across mobile and desktop browsers. They own these games, working closely with motion designers and product. The technical bar is real: games have to run smoothly across the full hardware spread - from low-end Android phones four-plus years out of date to the latest foldables - with our UI layered over that video stream and no room to drop frames. That constraint shapes every decision we make. This is not a React CRUD job. We use React where it fits, Pixi for 2D, Babylon for 3D, and we drop into GLSL when a signature effect calls for it. Several of our engineers have built their own engines and frameworks on the side, and that mindset shows up in our game library - layered abstractions with common UI components, an abstract game layer, per-genre cores for roulette, blackjack, baccarat, craps, and game shows, with multiple variations built on top by parallel teams. If you enjoy designing the framework as much as shipping in it, you'll fit here. Every engineer gets AI coding tools and the freedom to use them. We treat them as a force multiplier on the hard problems, not a substitute for understanding them - which matches how this team works in general.
- building games that play at scale
- pushing on the architecture that lets us keep shipping them
- work closely with our motion designers and product design team on the visual effects that make a game feel alive
- Exceptional command of frontend fundamentals. You understand what happens below the framework - the browser's rendering pipeline, memory, the event loop, where time actually goes.
- Deep experience in at least one modern framework. React, Vue, Svelte, Angular - we don't mind which. Framework is a tool; we're hiring for the thinking behind it.
- Genuine interest in graphics, animation, or real-time rendering. You don't need professional Canvas or WebGL experience on day one. You do need to be the kind of person who gets excited by a frame-budget problem rather than dreading it.
- Architectural sensibility. You think about abstractions and APIs, not just implementations. You've designed systems that other engineers then built on, and you're willing to challenge the status quo when the status quo has drifted.
- Fluent English , written and spoken.
- Daily collaboration with international colleagues.
- €4500–€8000 gross monthly, with room to go higher for exceptional candidates.
- Hybrid schedule: 3 days in the Riga office, 2 days remote.
- Health insurance after the probation period.
- A culture that rewards exploring new approaches, including hackathons.
- International team, modern delivery processes (Agile, GitLab, CI), and your choice of IDE and hardware.
Evolution AB is a Swedish company and the world's leading developer and supplier of live casino solutions for online gaming operators. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Stockholm, it produces live dealer games - including roulette, blackjack and a range of game shows - streamed from studios across Europe, the Americas and Asia. Through the acquisitions of NetEnt, Red Tiger, Big Time Gaming and others, the group is also a major online slots provider. Listed on Nasdaq Stockholm, Evolution employs more than 20,000 people worldwide.
